Protest song about ME & Angel on the Water

MErmaid said:
I fully understand the grief and pain, and my heart goes out to everyone, but I can’t see how telling the same painful past narrative over in repeat mode will change the minds of politicians.
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Politicians? They don't have minds, they are just puppets. Communicating to politicians and expecting them to serve the public is a useless pursuit. They only "look like" they are going to deliver the "goods" to the electors near the times of the elections. The system is built in such way that public really gets no real and proper services.

However, politicians do care about the mainstream culture, this gives them popularity that helps them towards the elections. But I feel nothing abut ME is unfortunately popular culture friendly -apart from comedians taking the piss out of us ME sufferers.

Sorry about this post is a total divert from the amazingly powerful song. I say no more.
 
Thank you for all the kind comments. I’m not used to sharing my music – it’s only the second song I’ve written, and I hardly every play in front of anyone because of my health – so it’s good to know that I’m not wasting my time. Hopefully there will be more to come.

@MErmaid Please do post your poem. @Hutan said he was going to propose an arts section for the forum, which I think would be a great idea.

@Binkie4 and @Joh Thanks for sharing those songs. I didn’t know it has been done before. In the first instance I will post a solo version so people can hear it and decide if they want to be involved.

@Graham Thanks for the info. Have you considered the Ukulele? Good for satirical songs too.
 
Hi @Robert 1973 . Way, way back, in the late 60s I shared digs with a number of musicians, and I decided to learn one tune on each. I managed to strum along to "Ain't got a barrel of money" on the uke. So your advice is to increase the number of instruments I can't quite play? And, what's worse, you are expected to sing along to a uke, whereas blowing the ewi makes sure I'm not able to sing - a big plus in the McPhee household.
 
I think I am turning Pink, cause I am feeling a whole lotta “Trouble”....



Just need the boots, cause I already own the dress. Watch me throw a few punches, and stomp my feet. Cause I AM “Trouble”.
 
Liv aka Mrs Sowester said:
Hi @Robert 1973 sorry I missed your request for warblers, I'll have a go at a line if you still need volunteers. I do love a good sing song.
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That would be great. Please email asongforMEcfs [at] gmail [dot] com and I will sent you the audio link etc. So far I’ve got 5 volunteers, all women, but no recordings yet.

Would be great to get some men’s voices. @Graham Could you persuade any of your singers/contacts to join in?

Anna and Jonas from the ME Perspective website (https://meperspective.wixsite.com/meperspective) are providing images for the video.
 
Well, @Robert 1973 , I had a real problem getting men to sing. Sadly, Hunter, who had a beautiful voice, is no longer with us. Nick too had died but prior to our recording, so I created his voice by filtering his friend Leela's voice as a tribute to him. Dez is the only male singer left, and he is a local friend who helped me put it all together and took part to provide balance. The only way I got so many men to take part was to let them do the talking bits.

You'll notice that I didn't sing either. My voice is, shall we say, lacking a little in certain respects - namely tune, pitch, timing, character, .... I was for a while a teacher at an all-girls school, in the days when there was always a hymn to be sung in assembly and teachers were expected to give a good example. I suppose it gave heart to all the others who couldn't sing.

If you have any specific requests, PM me and I'll see what I can do.
 
Robert 1973 said:
As some of you may have seen on Twitter, I recently wrote a song about a friend of mine who has ME:



Please share if you like it.

YouTube description:

I met Alex in hospital in 1999, in a neurology ward for patients diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (also known as ME/CFS). We were given cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and told that if we followed the advice we were given we would recover. We both did everything we were told but neither of us have recovered or even improved sufficiently to see each other again since we were discharged from hospital nearly two decades ago.

Alex loved to ride horses before she was unwell. Seeing a photograph of her sitting on a horse on the beach inspired me to write this song. Knowing her has given me great strength during some very difficult times.

I wrote a little about my experience of being in the hospital where we met in my essay, Perceptions of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: http://strangerandstranger.net/miscellanea.htm#perceptions


Proposed project for a protest song

I'm currently working on an arrangement of Blowin' in the Wind with my own lyrics about some of the issues affecting people with ME. I'm thinking about turning it into a collaborative project, using the voices of people with ME from around the world.

My idea was for a different person to sing each line of the song, and for everybody to sing the chorus as a virtual choir.

If anybody would like to get involved, please let me know. My knowledge of music production is limited to recording on my iPad with Garageband and a USB mic in my bedroom, and I'm very limited in my capacity, so if anyone feels that they could help on the technical/production side, that would be great.

I will post my solo recording of the song shortly, so please watch this thread for updates.

I'm also working on some other songs about ME, but they may take a bit longer to come to fruition.
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Update: I’ve had about 20 people volunteer to sing in the chorus. A few have had to drop out but I’m expecting to have about 15 voices before the provisional deadline in a couple of weeks times. My hope is to then get it all finished and uploaded in time for the millionsmissing protest on 12 May. Will keep you posted.

Still not too late if anyone would like to join in. Email: asongforMEcfs [at] gmail [dot] com

Meanwhile, I’ve just uploaded another new song, which is partly about my experience of living with ME:
 
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